Lingfield / Leangefeld / Lingefeld / Lingefend / Lingfeld / Lingesfeld / Lyngefeld / Lyngefeud / Lynkefeld

No individual entry found for Lingfield in the Domesday survey. Brayley (1850) writes: "The font is octagonal, large, massive, old, and much decayed. Its sides are ornamented with quatrefoils; in the centre of each, a rose; and in each of two of the roses, is the representation of a human or angelic face. The pedestal, also octangular in form, is relieved with niches." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Surrey, vol. 4, 1912) notes: "Ethelflæd wife of King Edgar and mother of Edward the Martyr is said to have given the church at Lingfield to Hyde Abbey. [...] The same cartulary which mentions this benefactress and her gift gives also a chronological account of the monastery, from which it appears that Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester 1129–71, who was always hostile to this foundation, wrongfully took away this church from their possession. [...] With the exception of the tower and the south and west walls of the nave in their lower portions the church is wholly of the 15th century. The tower, which is of 14th-century date, appears to stand on the foundations of one of the 12th century, and a few scattered 12th-century stones in the west end of the building indicate that there was a church on the site in that period. [...] The font is octagonal, of good 15th-century work with panelled sides and stem and an ogee-shaped wooden cover with crocketed ribs, which appears to be old, and has a finial which seems to be a late 17th or early 18th-century repair." [NB: the current font does not match Brayley's description; it is too sharp and new; it is either a 19th-century (?) copy, or a completly re-tooled font -- we have no information on the font of the original 9th-10th century church here].